Entries to Express It In Eight from September 2020 to the present . |
The number of poems enforces the use of blog format with ten poems per page. |
Deep Thoughts Rivers have beds but oceans have floors, perhaps because beds have limits but floors can go on forever, a great expanse where shells and fish bones and the crusty dead drift down to form a carpet. Line count: 8 Free verse For Express It In Eight, 10.04.22 Prompt: Write a poem about the ocean floor. |
Tomato Tiny starbursts, the little yellow blossoms pinpricked through the dark foliage, those hairy stems and proliferating fat leaves, each a humble nova of secret promise, a dream of bountiful fruitfulness and red the bulging containment of juice and flesh hanging heavy and ripe with goodness, shining skin taut with liquid bounty. Line count: 8 Free verse For Express It In Eight, 10.01.22 Prompt: Four words from poem, September Tomatoes, by Karina Borowicz. |
Avant Garde The brothers Montgolfier made agreement with the ants, haute couture with lots to say ‘bout clothes from hats to pants. Paris rang with ecstasy, the fashion world gone bats, the catwalk ants of fantasy parading in those hats. Line count: 8 Rhymed abab For Express It In Eight, 09.29.22 Prompt: As per illustration. |
Bushfire in Africa Clearance ahead of the fire, an empty space to thwart the flames, if sweating in the heat and branches torn off bushes beat, nor blackened hands and faces, wearied arms and backs, fail to hold assault - firebreak draws the line. Line count: 8 Free verse For Express It In Eight, 09.28.22 Prompt: Clearance. |
Blow Up The carnival has moved on, Great Underwater Extravaganza, and I near sold out of my happy wares. Have one on me, yes, now they’re free, but not balloons, they’re pufferfish. Line count: 8 Free verse For Express It In Eight, 09.26.22 Prompt: Illustration of diver with pufferfish on strings. |
Flowers The great grey green greasy Limpopo Eldorado somewhere up the Orinoco those allegories on the banks of the Nile the heart of darkness deep in the Congo three men in a boat on a river less longo the Mississippi took Huck for many a mile these but a few samples of rivers that flow* through the pages of books that we know. Line count: 8 Rhymed aabccbdd For Express It In Eight, 09.25.22 Prompt: World Rivers Day. Note: * is the word clue to the title. |
Bluebird If happiness be a bluebird it cannot be a blue bird for if it be a true blue bird its music would be blues and blues be the saddest word the saddest we have ever heard and so for happiness preferred another colour we should use. Line count: 8 Rhymed aaabaaab For Express It In Eight, 09.24.22 Prompt: National Bluebird of Happiness Day. |
Paradox The wonders of the invisible world are somewhat difficult to see, and even then it’s harder to say what you have seen, since seeing makes them visible and wonder flees immediate, the glories of the invisible made safe and stored in ours. Line count: 8 Free verse For Express It In Eight, 09.23.22 Prompt: The wonders of the invisible world. |
Memory Down the long, dark hallway of memory, we pass by rooms bright with Spring, new growth green in the trees and bees busy, others where winter reigns, cold and grey, some where waves run up a sandy beach, or cool mountain air is sharp in our lungs, and so on down the hall, room after room, on a trip to the darkness of forgetfulness. Line count: 8 Free verse For Express It In Eight, 09.22.22 Prompt: A long hallway. |